![]() ![]() In late December 1941, many of the nurses were assigned to a pair of battlefield hospitals on Bataan named Hospital #1 and Hospital #2. Josephine Nesbit, together with navy nurse Bernatitus, escaped from Manila and went on to serve in the Battle of Bataan and the Battle of Corregidor. The army nurses, under the command of Capt. ![]() ![]() The remaining 11 navy nurses were captured upon the fall of Manila and interned by the Japanese at Santo Tomas. Bernatitus, escaped from Manila to Bataan just before Manila fell. Cobb, stayed behind in Manila during the initial invasion to support the patients there. The navy nurses, under the command of Lt. Florence MacDonald, accompanied severely wounded patients from Sternberg aboard the improvised hospital ship Mactan that departed Manila shortly after midnight of the New Year of 1942 for Australia. Sternberg General Hospital, Manila, 1940. ![]()
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